Bridgit
Feminine · “The exalted one”
There are two great saints of this name and they belong to different countries and different worlds: an Irish one from the century after Patrick, and a Swedish one from the fourteenth century who is now one of the patrons of Europe. English speakers usually know only the first and assume the name is entirely Irish.
How old is the name Bridgit?
Bridgit first appears in US birth records in 1955 — 70 years ago. The typical Bridgit alive today was born around 1980, making them about 45 years old. About 1,200 people named Bridgit are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Bridgit most popular?
Bridgit peaked in 1966, reaching #1766 nationally. See the whole 1966 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Brigit to Bridgit
The story of Bridgit
Birgitta of Sweden had eight children, went on pilgrimage after her husband died, moved to Rome and stayed for the rest of her life pressing the popes to come back from Avignon, founded an order that still exists, and left a book of revelations that was read across Europe. She was canonized within twenty years of her death and named a patron of Europe six hundred years later. The Irish name went a different way in America: it was so common among Irish immigrant women in the nineteenth century that Bridget became a generic label for a domestic servant in American newspapers and cartoons, used the way a stock name is used, and the association was strong enough to keep the name out of fashion for a century afterwards.
Meaning
The exalted one
The Old Irish is generally read as high or exalted, and it was a title as much as a name. The Swedish Birgitta is the same name borrowed north; the two saints are separated by eight centuries and by everything else. The spelling here is an English simplification of a name that Irish spells with a dh in the middle and does not say.
How the name formed
- Brigit
- Bridget
- Bridgit
Related forms: Brighid · Birgitta · Brigida · Brigitte · Brigitte
Pronouncing Bridgit
BRIJ-it
Two syllables with the stress at the front. The Irish spelling has a dh in the middle that is not pronounced at all, and this version simply leaves it out, which makes it the more phonetic of the two without being the traditional one.
Nicknames for Bridgit
High
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1955
- Most girls named
- 196641 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1766reached in 1966
- Change vs 2015
- −42.9%8 in 2016, from 14
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Bridgit in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Brighid in Irish — related form
- Birgitta in Swedish — same name
- Brigida in Italian — same name
- Brigitte in French — same name
- Brigitte in German — same name
Bridgits among us
people named Bridgit are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Bridgit sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Recognizable across Irish, Swedish, German, French and Italian with only small changes.
- Several short forms from different countries, which gives a child real choice.
- The spelling matches the English pronunciation more closely than the standard one does.
- Bridget is the standard spelling and this one will be corrected by people acting in good faith.
- One of the traditional short forms became an insult in English and should be avoided knowingly.
- The name carries a strong nineteenth-century American association that has faded but not gone.
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Frequently asked
- How many Bridgits are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Bridgit are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Bridgit in 2025?
- Bridgit is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Bridgit with classmates?
- Bridgit will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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